With a photograph of his slain brother and a dog emblazoned across the front of his blue hooded sweatshirt, Moises Mota Jr. testified how his younger sibling came to suffer a fatal injury in a Bay City street.

Mota, 25, testified in the Wednesday, Jan. 23, preliminary examination of Kevin M. Roberts II, 19, Demarcus D. Fite, 19, and Katie A. Sian, 17, that he and his 20-year-old brother Santino A. Mota were at a friend’s house in the late evening of Dec. 13 and into the next morning. At some point, the younger Mota either received or placed a phone call, his brother testified.

A group of about 30 people gathered at Boone's Corner Store, adjacent to the Monitor Township home where police found two dead bodies on Wednesday, Jan. 23.

A handwritten sign posted on the door read "Closed," as the group convened in the darkened store about three miles west of Bay City. Those gathered declined to comment but one person said he was a friend of one of the victims.